Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers in Goldmember) and Natasha Leggero (Last Comic Standing) are set to co-star in the FX pilot Alabama a half-hour comedy co-created by and starring Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, co-creators and stars of Reno 911! where Sterling had a minor role. Alabama is set a thousand years in the future aboard the United Nations peacekeeping spaceship: The Alabama and begins six years into their seven year mission to maintain peace and enforce treaties between planets in their jurisdiction: Sector 187-G. The show will follow the crew as they visit hostile planets, meet alien life-forms, and try to have sex with each other in their tiny, metal bunk beds. Lennon plays Acting Captain Glen Frenchman, Garant plays #2, a robot who is second in command; DSA-repped Sterling plays Doc, the ships doctor officer; and Leggero, who will guest in the pilot, plays Roxy Sexbot. Also cast in the pilot is Brandon Johnson. Production begins later this month in Los Angeles.

Actor/comedian Bryan Callen (Hangover, How I Met Your Mother) has landed a lead on MTV’s new series Death Valley, a COPS-type mockumentary about the dark comedic adventures of cops in the ‘UTF’ (Undead Task Force). Callen plays Capt. Jim Dashell… Noah Bean (Damages) has joined CW’s freshman series Nikita as a recurring, playing Ryan Fletcher, a CIA case officer & analyst. he is with Gersh and Antrim Street.

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I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE IDEAS FOR THESE SHOWS CAME FROM. BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS IT RESEMBLES MY WORK

lalaranta • on Oct 20, 2010 9:45 am

OH MY GOD. ALL CAPS.

Someone • on Oct 20, 2010 11:49 am

I am a big fan of this comment. It’s everything the internet is, compiled into 2 quasi-sentences.

Steve • on Oct 20, 2010 3:51 pm

Where can we all see your work?

KG • on Nov 1, 2010 6:07 pm

I agree – I’m also impressed that your work could compile the concepts of Alabama, Death Valley, and Nikita.

Lanny Grant • on Oct 20, 2010 12:47 pm

Mark my words, this is the beginning of the end of “Nikita.” CW’s programming chief Dawn Ostroff is simply wrong in wanting to lighten the show’s tone and shoehorn in a love interest for Maggie Q. “Nikita” attracts equal or better numbers of an older audience, and they will tune out in droves once the show becomes about Nikita’s lovelife set inside softened storylines. It seems the lessons of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” are still lost. If you marry a tough tone with challenging storylines and complex characters, you will have a great show that appeals to a broad spectrum of people.

balls • on Oct 20, 2010 6:51 pm

Alabama sounds a lot like the hilarious pilot of “Boldy Going Nowhere” penned by the Sunny creators, to bad FX couldn’t just pick up that project, it was hilarious.